Cat 1? Were you asleep and dreaming?
Ike hit as a 3, went through as a Cat 2...not so bad if it was smaller, but as wide as it was, and considering how dead center it hit in the 6th largest populated city in the US...shit, what a mess.
Walls fell around my building, with the few required uprooted trees...power was only out in my apt for 3 days...still out in most of the area. Just got dial tone, but DSL is still out.
I am sick over the ruination of Galveston, Freeport, and all the coastal areas I have been in so many times. So many people affected...
Sometimes ya lose...this was a shitstorm that landed.
Woy...Jagger69...other coastal Texans...how are you doin'? Some people may not have power or 'net yet, check in and share what happened.
My neighbor just got back from Palestine 2 days before Ike, never was in any kind of storm before...he'll never forget the last 4 days! And in the middle of Ramadan, too...we BBQ'd most of our freezer meat immediately after the 'cane went by, no power and we all were hungry.
Almost had fun waiting for power, and basic civilization to return; lotta apt residents gathered by candlelight, by the pool and on balconies, to consume non-perishable liquor stocks and eat everything that might spoil without refrigerators.
I managed to keep nearly all my fish alive (7 aquariums), dipping water out and pouring it back in every hour or so...a friend lost years of hard work and at least half his aquariums when the power went. I was lucky.
Twinkie the Russian Dwarf hamster never noticed, mostly slept through the whole thing.:rofl:
I hope everyone else came out on the other side of the storm as well as I did...lots of people got hit really hard.
